The wonderfully chaotic and exotic Muslim Quarter is lined with endless shopping alleyways and body to body shoppers, vendors, delivery people, and children. Tourists pass by wide-eyed. Group tours mass to hear an explanation and hold up traffic for a bit. Sellers greet you in such artificially sweet tones. Children scurry all around and make games out of trash. Cats shriek and fight just above our heads. Delivery men crash through everyone with giant bundles. And all the noise is sliced through by the Muslim call to prayer. After a full day in the Old City, we explored the rather quiet and somewhat boring Armenian Quarter, walked through the perfectly modern and well-organized (in other words: plain and 'vanilla') Jewish Quarter, and yet I still felt much more at home in the chaos of the Muslim Quarter. The smells, sights, sounds, and FOOD!!! were fantastic.
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